500GB new HDD or 750GB HDD with failed WEI

Hi Guys,

I have XPS with 750GB HDD which is 6 month old. I want to evaluate the performance of this HDD because Windows Experience Index fails on this one since my motherboard is replaced by Dell(same BIOS level).

I have two Windows 7 installed, one at C drive and other at D drive. I manually executed "winsat disk" for all partitions from both operating systems. When I run it from windows installed in C drive, it fails for C drive and passes for D,E,F drives. When I run it from windows installed in D drive, it fails for D drive and passes for C,E,F drives. (Error is related to: Run Assessment disk -scen 2009)

All chkdsk output are fine for all C,D,E,F partitions. Does it mean that I should ignore WEI error?

I am getting new 500GB 512e HDD as replacement (my original purchase was 500GB) due to some unrelated issue. I want to continue with 750GB HDD, but this WEI error is confusing me. Should I take the replacement of 500GB HDD or not?

 

I would bet WEI is failing due to some combination of running winsat manually and having a ton of partitions... that being said, I'm not sure chkdsk is a good indicator of drive health; have you checked the SMART data on the disk as well? Or run an HDTune scan?

 

Hello Commander,

Good to see a reply from you!!

HDTune Error Scan is running now.

HDTune Health report says
Reallocated sectors count =10. 10 retired sectors, drive has damaged sectors.
Reallocated Evevt Count = 9, Number of sector replacement operations.
Health Status = Warning (yellow color)

I will find out how to read SMART data.

I have 4 partitions and WEI score was 5.9 before with same HDD. WEI started giving error after motherboard replacement. I have not executed winsat before WEI.

 

HDTune results attached:

 

Error scan is all green.